Cheer (v. t.) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
Cheer (v. t.) To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase.
Cheer (v. i.) To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up.
Cheer (v. i.) To be in any state or temper of mind.
Cheer (v. i.) To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc.
Cheerer (n.) One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens.
Cheerful (a.) Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.
Cheerfully (adv.) In a cheerful manner, gladly.
Cheerfulness (n.) Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
Cheerily (adv.) In a cheery manner.
Cheeriness (n.) The state of being cheery.
Cheeringly (adv.) In a manner to cheer or encourage.
Cheerisness (n.) Cheerfulness.
Cheerless (a.) Without joy, gladness, or comfort.
Cheerly (a.) Gay; cheerful.
Cheerly (adv.) Cheerily.
Cheerry (a.) Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person.
Cheese (n.) The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
Cheese (n.) A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.
Cheese (n.) The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).
Cheese (n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
Cheeselep (n.) A bag in which rennet is kept.
Cheesemonger (n.) One who deals in cheese.
Cheeseparing (n.) A thin portion of the rind of a cheese.
Cheeseparing (a.) Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.
Cheesiness (n.) The quality of being cheesy.
Cheesy (a.) Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.
Cheetah (n.) A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus.
Chef (n.) A chief of head person.
Chef (n.) The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.
Chef (n.) Same as Chief.
Chefs-d'oeuvre (pl. ) of Chef-d'oeuvre
Chef-d'oeuvre (n.) A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.
Chegoe (n.) Alt. of Chegre
Chegre (n.) See Chigoe.
Cheiloplasty (n.) The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.
Cheilopoda (n.) See Ch/lopoda.
Cheirepter (n.) One of the Cheiroptera.
Cheiroptera (n. pl.) An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.
Cheiropterous (a.) Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.
Cheiropterygia (pl. ) of Cheiropterygium
Cheiropterygium (n.) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.
Cheirosophy (n.) The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.
Cheirotherium (n.) A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.
Chekelatoun (n.) See Ciclatoun.
Chekmak (n.) A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.
Chelae (pl. ) of Chela
Chela (n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.
Chelate (a.) Same as Cheliferous.
Chelerythrine (n.) An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.
Chelicerae (pl. ) of Chelicera
Chelicera (n.) One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.
Chelidon (n.) The hollow at the flexure of the arm.
Chelidonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine.
Chelidonius (n.) A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.
Chelifer (n.) See Book scorpion, under Book.
Cheliferous (a.) Having cheliform claws, like a crab.
Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.
Chelone (n.) A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.
Chelonia (n. pl.) An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.
Chelonian (a.) Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.
Chelonian (n.) One of the Chelonia.
Chelura (n.) A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber.
Chely (n.) A claw. See Chela.
Chemic (n.) A chemist; an alchemist.
Chemic (n.) A solution of chloride of lime.
Chemic (a.) Chemical.
Chemical (a.) Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical combinations.
Chemical (n.) A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent.
Chemically (adv.) According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.
Chemiglyphic (a.) Engraved by a voltaic battery.
Chemiloon (n.) A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one.
Chemise (n.) A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.
Chemise (n.) A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
Chemisette (n.) An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.
Chemism (n.) The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.
Chemist (n.) A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.
Chemistry (n.) That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule.
Chemistry (n.) An application of chemical theory and method to the consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry of indigo.
Chemistry (n.) A treatise on chemistry.
Chemitype (n.) One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.
Chemolysis (n.) A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone.
Chemosmosis (n.) Chemical action taking place through an intervening membrane.
Chemosmotic (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis.
Chemung period () A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.
Cheng (n.) A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.
Chenille (n.) Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.
Chenomorphae (n. pl.) An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.
Chepster (n.) The European starling.
Cheque (n.) See Check.
Chequer (n. & v.) Same as Checker.
Chequing (n.) A coin. See Sequin.
Chequy (n.) Same as Checky.
Cherif (n.) See Cherif.
Cherimoyer (n.) A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru.
Cherimoyer (n.) Its delicious fruit, which is succulent, dark purple, and similar to the custard apple of the West Indies.
Cherished (imp. & p. p.) of Cherish
Cherising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cherish
Cherish (v. t.) To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
Cherish (v. t.) To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.